BOOK XXXV. VII. 19-21 



VII. In Rome also honour was fuUy attained by EaHy 

 this art at an early date, inasmuch as a very distin- ^'S^ 

 guished clan of the Fabii derived from it their sur- a'"^ pai" 

 name of Pictor. ' Painter,' and the first holder of the '^^ 

 name himself painted the Temple of Health in the 

 year 450 from the foundation of the City : the work :io4 b.u. 

 survived down to our own period, when the temple 

 was destroyed by fire in the principate of Claudius. 

 Next in celebrity was a painting by the poet 

 Pacuvius " in the temple of Hercules in the Cattle 

 Market. Pacuvius was the son of a sister of 

 Ennius,*' and he added distinction to the art of 

 painting at Rome by reason of his fame as a play- 

 wright. After Pacuvius, painting was not esteemed 

 as iiandiwork for persons of station, unless one 

 chooses to recall a knight of Rome named Turpilius, 

 from Venetia, in our own generation, because of his 

 beautiful works still surviving at Verona. Turpilius 

 painted with his left hand, a thing recorded of no 

 preceding artist. Titedius Labeo, a man of prae- 

 torian rank who had actually held the office of 

 Proconsul of the Province of Narbonne, and who 

 died lately in extreme old age, used to be proud of 

 his miniatures, but this was laughed at and actually 

 damaged his reputation. There was also a cele- 

 brated debate on the subject of painting held between 

 some meii of eminence v/hich must not be omitted. 

 when the former consul and winner of a triumph 

 Quintus Pedius, who was appointed by the Dictator ^.j.^^ b.c 

 Caesar as his joint heirwith Augustus, had a grand- 

 son Quintus Pedius who was born dumb ; in this 

 debate the orator Messala, of whose family the boy's 

 grandmother had been a member, gave the advice 

 that the boy should have lessons in painting, and 



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